Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Sun and the Moon, sentence 11
He is not strong, and he breaks to pieces trying to do so much.
Who acts: Sun, pieces · What happens: not be, break, try, do
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XV. the Sun and the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, pieces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 strong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 strong | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 strong | advmod |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 breaks | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 breaks | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 breaks | nsubj |
| 8 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 strong | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pieces | case |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 breaks | obl |
| 11 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 pieces | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 trying | xcomp |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 do | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Sun | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | present | Sun | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to piece=Result | ||||
| 3 | try | gerund | pieces not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | pieces not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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